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California energy officials on Friday issued a sober forecast for the state's electrical grid

I'm a scientist - I know full-well that AGW is a fraud.

CO2 is not a pollutant, it does not drive climate, and the production of more CO2 Carrie's no consequences.

Here's the science. Watch it, learn something, be smarter.

Millions of people are scientists- that doesn't qualify them to make bogus claims like you do.

I can tell from your reply that that video isn't worth watching.
 
Do you believe that gasoline-powered internal combustion engines are the reason why California’s government is concerned about electricity shortages, AntiWar? Or are you simply being pedantic because I did not specify that I was referring to electricity usage?

Support your claim or don't.
 
Indeed. Which is why we invested in a whole-home generator that kicks in automatically when the lights go out. Flat worth it!
...and why the American voting majority, as it did in the 2000, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020, invested their vote in presidential
candidates beholden to scientific experts instead of to the fossil fuel industry and its lobbyists and stockholders.
 
Please feel free to list them, and what is being done to address the shortage.

The supposed "shortage" has nothing to do with Diablo Canyon, except that they might try to keep it open because they can't "figure out" how to do better than an old nuclear plant.
 
All the dollars currently being wasted to fight CO2 should be redirected to fusion energy research. With success, then and only then will the elimination of fossil fuels be feasible.
 
I'm a scientist - I know full-well that AGW is a fraud.

CO2 is not a pollutant, it does not drive climate, and the production of more CO2 Carrie's no consequences.

Here's the science. Watch it, learn something, be smarter.



"Nearly all actively publishing climate scientists (97–100%) say humans are causing climate change.[5][4] Surveys of the scientific literature are another way to measure scientific consensus. A 2019 review of scientific papers found the consensus on the cause of climate change to be at 100%,[2] and a 2021 study concluded that over 99% of scientific papers agree on the human cause of climate change.[3] Papers that disagreed with the consensus either cannot be replicated or contain errors.[6] .."

CO₂ emissions | Energy economics | Home - BP​

https://www.bp.com › energy-economics › co2-emissions

Carbon emissions from energy use fell by 6.3% in 2020, to their lowest level since 2011. As with primary ‎energy, this was the largest decline since the end ...
 
Millions of people are scientists- that doesn't qualify them to make bogus claims like you do.

I can tell from your reply that that video isn't worth watching.
You won't watch it because it is legitimate science that debunks the garbage you believe as gospel.

You wouldn't understand the science anyway - no left-wing activist does.
 
All the dollars currently being wasted to fight CO2 should be redirected to fusion energy research. With success, then and only then will the elimination of fossil fuels be feasible.

They are already spending quite a bit.
The UK has JET

Which is doing research which will end up with a larger version in France with ITER.
 
You won't watch it because it is legitimate science that debunks the garbage you believe as gospel.

You wouldn't understand the science anyway - no left-wing activist does.

Your logic is lacking.

We don't need any more evidence that humans are destroying Earth's ecosystems. There's so much, that to suggest doing nothing (if that's your position) is absurd. It's similar to saying: I'm a scientist and I know that mutually assured destruction is a fraudulent scam for globalist power. Let's detonate all nuclear weapons.

We don't know what MAD nor continuing to rape Earth will do, but we can easily conclude that we shouldn't risk either.
 
Yes, trying to save people money by championing energy efficiency makes me such a socialist stooge.
How silly of me.
Never said anything about energy efficiency - but then again, a free person would consider such a thing on an individual level. Self interest.

A collectivist would consider such a thing as a matter for government decree and enforcement.

I assume you believe in the AGW boogieman - so logically, at least in your mind, there should be a law, and the government should have the power to crack skulls for noncompliance - yes??
 
Never said anything about energy efficiency - but then again, a free person would consider such a thing on an individual level. Self interest.

A collectivist would consider such a thing as a matter for government decree and enforcement.

I assume you believe in the AGW boogieman - so logically, at least in your mind, there should be a law, and the government should have the power to crack skulls for noncompliance - yes??

I believe it's a good thing for the government to spend money to help people with energy efficiency.
As for cracking skulls for noncompliance, where have I ever said anything even remotely like that?
 
What has that got to do with anything and how do you know if I buy Chinese junk or not?
Because China has zero environmental restrictions... they've stolen our manufacturing, and produce cheap bobbles, with cheap labor and cheap energy.

All the while, our politicians are in bed with them, and work to constrict our energy supply, drive up our debt, and drive up labor costs.

And your solution/suggestion was that we should use less energy??

Do you see the connection now??
 
All the dollars currently being wasted to fight CO2 should be redirected to fusion energy research. With success, then and only then will the elimination of fossil fuels be feasible.
BP Corp. and 99% of scientists are wrong, you and other RWE are certainly the wisest ones, just as you are in your opinion of Trump.

Experts: Trump = lowest job performance score of any POTUS in 150 years

98 panelists who scored Trump's job performance, including 5 of Bob Jones Univ., Hillsdale College, and Regents Univ.,
despite aggregate enrollment of those 3 "conservative" institutions of higher learning of only 14.500 students,

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U.S. Energy Secretarty Rick Perry, in a June 2017 interview with CNBC acknowledged the existence of climate change and impact from humans, but said that he did not agree with the idea that carbon dioxide was the primary driver of global warming pointing instead to "the ocean waters and this environment that we live in". The American Meteorological Society responded in a letter to Perry saying that it is "critically important that you understand that emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are the primary cause", pointing to conclusions of scientists worldwide.

Republican Jim Bridenstine, the first elected politician to serve as NASA administrator, had previously stated that global temperatures were not rising. A month after the Senate confirmed his NASA position in April 2018, he acknowledged that human emissions of greenhouse gases are raising global temperatures.

Although climate denial have started to decrease among the Republican Party leadership towards an acknowledgement that "the climate is changing", a 2019 study from several major think tanks describes the climate right as "fragmented and underfunded."
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Another cause may be weariness from overexposure to the topic: secondary polls suggest that the public may have been discouraged by extremism when discussing the topic, while other polls show 54% of U.S. voters believe that "the news media make global warming appear worse than it really is." A poll in 2009 regarding the issue of whether "some scientists have falsified research data to support their own theories and beliefs about global warming" showed that 59% of Americans believed it "at least somewhat likely", with 35% believing it was "very likely".

According to Tim Wirth, "They patterned what they did after the tobacco industry. ... Both figured, sow enough doubt, call the science uncertain and in dispute. That's had a huge impact on both the public and Congress." This approach has been propagated by the US media, presenting a false balance between climate science and climate skeptics. Newsweek reports that the majority of Europe and Japan accept the consensus on scientific climate change, ...but Americans .. in 2006; 64% believed that scientists disagreed about it "a lot." A 2007 Newsweek poll found these numbers were declining, although majorities of Americans still believed that scientists were uncertain about climate change and its causes. Rush Holt wrote a piece for Science, which appeared in Newsweek:

for more than two decades scientists have been issuing warnings .. The American public yawned and bought bigger cars. Statements by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Geophysical Union, American Meteorological Society, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and others underscored the warnings and called for new government policies to deal with climate change. Politicians, presented with noisy statistics, shrugged, said there is too much doubt among scientists, and did nothing.
Deliberate attempts by the Western Fuels Association "to confuse the public" have succeeded in their objectives. .."
 
Because China has zero environmental restrictions... they've stolen our manufacturing, and produce cheap bobbles, with cheap labor and cheap energy.

All the while, our politicians are in bed with them, and work to constrict our energy supply, drive up our debt, and drive up labor costs.

And your solution/suggestion was that we should use less energy??

Do you see the connection now??

So because China is not helping you shouldn't either?
Yes, I think we could all use less energy and still have the same lifestyle.
It's like with US conservative stupid opposition to using new style lightbulbs that are massively more efficient and last way, way longer.
 
So because China is not helping you shouldn't either?
Yes, I think we could all use less energy and still have the same lifestyle.
It's like with US conservative stupid opposition to using new style lightbulbs that are massively more efficient and last way, way longer.
Again, energy is abundant - and should be cheap.

It is only because of the lust for power of the global elite, who are using bogus science to drive a destructive political agenda that energy is both scarce and expensive.

Yet you don't see any of it. Being a brit, I know your media is even worse than ours - and ours is horrific. You really need to dig, and read a lot of different source material to figure any of this out.

For most though, turning on the telly to get doses of confirmation bias are all they're willing to do.
 
Again, energy is abundant - and should be cheap.

It is only because of the lust for power of the global elite, who are using bogus science to drive a destructive political agenda that energy is both scarce and expensive.

Yet you don't see any of it. Being a brit, I know your media is even worse than ours - and ours is horrific. You really need to dig, and read a lot of different source material to figure any of this out.

For most though, turning on the telly to get doses of confirmation bias are all they're willing to do.
A massive conspiracy that "sucked in" BP Corp. and 99% of scientists, but not you, thank God, not you.
...and you're projecting.

While you're on the subject... what did you think about the "honey pot" the CIA tried to run on Papadopoulos??

Is that not hilarious stuff??!!

None of you people seem to have a take, lol ;)
 
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AND the energy shortfall throughout the south western USA is exacerbated by 'climate change drought' in the South Western USA



Fear not. We're increasing our hydro power production up here in Canada and we can increase our electricity export to the US.
Just don't get behind on the payments.
 
Because the eco nuts say that building more power plants will destroy the planet, thats why.
No.... just destroy the economy. Try to keep up. These are the most recent pair of "investment" in commercial scale
generation of nuclear power in the U.S.

$39 billion spent on four identical Westinghouse reactors, one executive in prison, two more on the way,
no power generated for commercial sale, to date, 17 years after construction commenced. Two of four of those new
reactors abandoned after $9 billion of that $39 billion was expended.

Do you not think other U.S. electric utilities have been observing and taking note?


Meanwhile, while $39 billion on four reactors rated at 1125 MW each, was being expended with no resulting nuclear power generation,
to dare, this Duke Energy project with output 1/8 that total generating capacity was built and has been producing revenue, at a cost considerably less than the $4.7 billion comparable cost for that generating capacity if the only current U.S. nuclear generating project cost
is any guide
. Russian aggression has also raised the world price of uranium and there is still no U.S. permanent waste storage solution
or a solution to protection from earthquake or terrorism damage risk, (see Japan tsunami).

Duke Energy Progress customers receiving 560 megawatts of ...

https://news.duke-energy.com › releases › duke-energy...
Jul 22, 2020 — "The new station generates enough energy to serve about 450,000 homes. The $817 million station includes two electricity-producing power blocks ...
...The first 280-megawatt power block came online in December 2019, and the second 280-megawatt power block became fully operational in April 2020.

As part of the project, Duke Energy shut down a 1960s-era coal-fired power plant at the Asheville site in January 2020. Demolition of the coal plant is underway, with completion expected in 2023.

The Asheville Combined Cycle Station is Duke Energy’s most efficient plant in the Carolinas – and 75% more efficient than the retired coal plant it replaced."
 
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No.... just destroy the economy. Try to keep up. These are the most recent pair of "investment" in commercial scale
generation of nuclear power in the U.S.

$39 billion spent on four identical Westinghouse reactors, one executive in prison, two more on the way,
no power generated for commercial sale, to date, 17 years after construction commenced. Two of four of those new
reactors abandoned after $9 billion of that $39 billion was expended.

Do you not think other U.S. electric utilities have been observing and taking note?


Meanwhile, while $39 billion on four reactors rated at 1125 MW each, was being expended with no resulting nuclear power generation,
to dare, this Duke Energy project with output 1/8 that total generating capacity was built and has been producing revenue, at a cost considerably less than the $4.7 billion comparable cost for that generating capacity if the only current U.S. nuclear generating project cost
is any guide
. Russian aggression has also raised the world price of uranium and there is still no U.S. permanent waste storage solution
or a solution to protection from earthquake or terrorism damage risk, (see Japan tsunami).

Duke Energy Progress customers receiving 560 megawatts of ...

https://news.duke-energy.com › releases › duke-energy...
Jul 22, 2020 — "The new station generates enough energy to serve about 450,000 homes. The $817 million station includes two electricity-producing power blocks ...
...The first 280-megawatt power block came online in December 2019, and the second 280-megawatt power block became fully operational in April 2020.

As part of the project, Duke Energy shut down a 1960s-era coal-fired power plant at the Asheville site in January 2020. Demolition of the coal plant is underway, with completion expected in 2023.

The Asheville Combined Cycle Station is Duke Energy’s most efficient plant in the Carolinas – and 75% more efficient than the retired coal plant it replaced."
LOL fraud happens, even in green energy. With your logic, everything ought to be stopped.

 
A right-libertarian trying to call out scientists as nuts. :rolleyes:
Name the scientist you support that says the earth will be destroyed.
 
Name the scientist you support that says the earth will be destroyed.

We're not risking destroying Earth, as far as we know- we're risking making Earth uninhabitable at the worst, and increasing serious misery at the least.
 
LOL fraud happens, even in green energy. With your logic, everything ought to be stopped.

Your reply is incoherent. I documented at least $30 billion in systemic waste. The designer and contractor of the two projects, Westinghouse,
went bankrupt in the process of building one totally failed, twin reactor project while the other is more than a dozen years behind schedule
and will cost at least 5 times anticipated costs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westinghouse_Electric_Company#2015_accounting_difficulties

You posted an DOJ announcement unrelated to the original question you replied to with,

Because the eco nuts say that building more power plants will destroy the planet, thats why.

You want to rant, but you're misleading readers.
 
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We're not risking destroying Earth, as far as we know- we're risking making Earth uninhabitable at the worst, and increasing serious misery at the least.

You still havent named a single scientist that supports your nutty beliefs. It's clear you dont know a thing about science at all.
Your reply is incoherent. I documented at least $30 billion in systemic waste. The designer and contractor of the two projects, Westinghouse,
went bankrupt in the process of building one totally failed, twin reactor project while the other is more than a dozen years behind schedule
and will cost at least 5 times anticipated costs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westinghouse_Electric_Company#2015_accounting_difficulties

You posted an DOJ announcement unrelated to the original question you replied to with,



You want to rant, but you're misleading readers.

So what? Your moronic green alternatives dont work, and there's fraud in them too. It's clear your logic isnt sound but you double down on fail.
 
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AND the energy shortfall throughout the south western USA is exacerbated by 'climate change drought' in the South Western USA



Maybe it’s time to Re-start San Onofre and put a dam on Big Sur. Also there’s a lot of coal in America. This is caused by failure of government in California, both by encouraging large numbers of people to move in from outside the country while at the same time shuttering major infrastructure and trying to replace it with inefficient “green energy”
 
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AND the energy shortfall throughout the south western USA is exacerbated by 'climate change drought' in the South Western USA





Well, the state has a huge surplus of $$ this year. Now they have a worthwhile place to spend it.
 
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